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OF    THE 

FIRST    ANNUAL,    REPORT 

OF    THE 

AMERICAN   AIVTI-SL AVERT  SOCIETY, 

BY  DAVID  M.  REESE,  M.  D. 
Of  New  York. 


BY  MARTIN  MAR  QUACK,  M.  D.  L.  L.  D.  M.  a  L.  H. 

S'.'G.  S.  M.  F.  M.  P.  S.  &c.  &c. 

OF    THAT    ILK. 


Answer  a  fool  according  to  his  folly,  lest  he  be  wise  in  his  own  conceit. 

SOLOMON. 


BOSTON: 

PRINTED  AND  PUBLISHED  BY  CALVIN  KNOX. 

1834. 


TJ  the  Members  of  the  New  England  Jlnti-Slavery  Society, 
And  all  other  Fanatics ! 

GENTLEMEN ! 

As  the  Veather  has  been  too  hot  and  "combustible"  for  me 
to  pursue  my  usual  chemical  experiments,  and  also  my  surgical  examina 
tions  among  dead  subjects  ;  I  have  turned  my  attention  to  a  lighter  job, 
the  dissection  of  a  living  biped,  the  strange  qualities  of  which  I  recom 
mend  to  your  investigation.  As  it  is  not  probable,  that  another  such  a 
subject  for  anatomical  science  will  again  speedily  be  presented  for  your 
study,  I  trust  you  will  duly  estimate  these  accurate  drawings  and  care 
fully  preserved  cuttings  of  a  new  anomaly,  by 

MARTIN  MAR  QUACK,  M.  D.  L.  L.  D.  &c.  &c. 

Dissecting  Room,  ]6th  August,  1834. 


DR.  REESE'S  REVIEW 

OF    THE 

AMERICAN   ANTI-SLAVERY  SOCIETY, 

DISSECTED  BY  MARTIN  MAR  QUACK,  M.  D. 


WHEN  the  Jews  could  not  crucify  the  Lord  of  glory,  either  by 
perverting  their  own  law,  or  by  suborning  false  witnesses,  they 
charged  the  meek  and  lowly  PRINCE  OF  PEACE  with  treason  against 
Cassar ;  and  by  the  agreement  between  Herod  and  Pilate,  they  ac 
complished  their  hellish  design.  The  martyrs  of  the  first  three 
centuries,  the  witnesses  of  subsequent  periods,  and  the  Reformers 
and  Confessors  of  more  recent  times,  all  suffered  and  were  tortur 
ed  upon  the  same  groundless  and  malicious  pretext.  This  base 
but  mischievous  allegation  is  still  vociferated  by  every  sinner  against 
Christians,  expressly  to  impede  the  progress  of  truth,  freedom  and 
religion.  It  is  not  less  rife  and  pernicious  now,  and  in  this  coun 
try,  than  in  the  dark  ages  and  under  European  tyrants. 

This  deduction  flows  from  the  perusal  of  a  late  pamphlet,  enti 
tled,  "A  brief  Review  of  the  first  Annual  Report  of  the  American 
Anti-Slavery  Society,  &c.  by  DAVID  M.  REESE,"  than  which  a  more 
malignant  tissue  of  calumny  has  never  been  issued  from  the  Ameri 
can  press.  This  overflowing  corruption  of  an  unfeeling  slanderer 
is  masked  under  the  garb  of  religion,  which  renders  the  hypocrisy 
of  the  author  equally  loathsome  as  his  impudence. 

This  pamphlet  by  Dr.  Reese,  like  all  his  other  writings,  would 
be  totally  unworthy  of  notice,  did  not  the  sanction  given  to  it  by 
persons,  who  claim  respect,  add  to  it  an  imposing  character  which 
conceals  its  innate  turpitude.  This  farrago  of  untruth  and  spite 
combines  all  the  insolence,  recklessness  and  knavery  of  a  Charla 
tan,  who,  provided  that  he  can  pocket  his  money  for  his  murderous 
nostrums,  laughs  at  the  credulity  of  those  whom  he  gulls  with  his 
death-dealing  imposture.  David  M.  Reese's  sole  object  is  to  write 
himself  into  notoriety,  that  he  may  enlarge  the  amount  of  his  pro 
fessional  fees  ;  and  as  all  his  friends  know,  he  would  become  an 
anti-slavery  partisan,  or  any  thing  else,  provided  he  could  have  his 
price.  In  fact,  this  pretended  review  is  the  furious  tirade  of  a  man 
raving  in  the  paroxysms  of  an  incurable  fever,  brought  on  by  the 
brimstone  materials  with  which  he  has  long  been  surfeited  :  it  is  one 
continually  repeated  allegation  that  the  American  friends  of  human 
liberty  are  traitors  to  the  United  States,  and  friends  of  the  sexual 
intercourse  between  the  different  races  of  mankind ;  and  therefore 
th«y  ought  to  be  exterminated.  Expunge  those  parts  of  Dr.  Reese's 


pamphlet  which  contain  this  deadly  malevolence,  and  also  erase 
that  which  is  notoriously  false,  and  the  remainder  would  not  be 
worth  a  pill  of  sawdust  and  paste  ! 

We  proceed  to  examine  some  of  the  principal  topics  contained 
in  this  review  of  the  American  Anti-Slavery  Society,  by  David 
M.  Reese. 

I.  Dr.  Reese  justifies  the  personal  injuries  inflicted  upon  Chris 
tian  citizens  by  lawless  mobs.  In  the  preface,  he  thus  writes  : 
"  We  would  be  early  in  our  remonstrance,  lest  they,"  the  Anti- 
Slavery  Society,  "  should  mistake  the  opposition  deeply  felt  in  this 
whole  community  for  a  mere  irrational  effervescence  among  the  ig 
norant  and  depraved."  This  sentence  fully  admits,  that  the  New 
York  rioters  were  not  the  condemned  parties  who  have  been  pun 
ished.  The  wretches  at  the  Penitentiary  are  ignorant  and  deprav 
ed  ;  but  Dr.  Reese,  and  no  man  probably  is  better  acquainted  with 
the  facts  in  the  case,  declares  that  the  men  who  contrived  and  ex 
ecuted  the  New  York  riots,  those  guilty  depredators,  were  not  igno 
rant,  and,  in  his  meaning  of  the  term,  were  not  depraved.  No ! 
It  was  the  enlightened,  and  according  to  the  code  of  Dr.  Reese 
and  his  brethren,  the  moral,  so  called,  (and  no  man  can  be  higher 
testimony,)  who  excited  and  maintained  the  riots,  until  they  them 
selves  became  alarmed  for  their  own  guilty  heads. 

After  this  sentence,  follows  a  slanderous  threat  of  the  same  fero 
cious  character,  as  those  by  which  some  of  the  New  York  newspa 
pers  have  "  let  loose  the  dogs  of  war."  "  If  these  bewildered  men 
should  attempt  a  renewal  of  their  meetings  in  this  city,  or  any 
where  else,  they  would  involve  themselves  and  their  fellow-citizens 
in  still  greater  calamities."  Thus  David  M.  Reese,  this  great  phi 
lanthropist,  denies  the  liberty  of  speech,  and  of  peaceful  assembla 
ges  of  citizens  and  conscientious  Christians,  and  denounces  against 
them  pillage  and  death;  because  turbulent  profligates,  not  "igno 
rant  and  depraved,"  wantonly  and  lawlessly  molest,  belie  and  per 
secute  our  best  citizens. 

The  wicked  and  guileful  perversion  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and 
the  blasphemous  indignity  attached  to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  in 
Dr.  Reese's  preface,  would  be  consistent  in  an  irreligious  scoffer  ; 
but  in  a  boastful  religionist,  they  only  exhibit  a  melancholy  speci 
men  of  that  deceitfulness,  which  "  casts  up  mire  and  dirt."  Of 
the  contradictions  which  are  found  in  David  M.  Reese's  reviews, 
the  following  specimens  are  very  edifying.  On  the  fourth  of  July, 
he  says,  pages  40,  41  :  "  Could  it  be  expected,  that  an  American  au 
dience  would  restrain  their  indignation  ?  All  that  was  done  there 
was,  to  prevent  the  delivery  of  the  oration  in  the  most  peaceable 
and  effectual  manner."  This  is  a  defence  of  the  riotous  proceed 
ings;  or,  rather,  a  eulogy  of  that  daring  and  base  infringement  of 
civic  liberty  and  of  the  laws.  David  M.  Reese  thus  proceeds : 
"  Still,  however,  no  inconsiderable  violence  was  done  to  persons  or 
property,  although  the  meetings  and  speeches  and  publications 
were  continued  in  defiance  of  remonstrance  and  rebuke,  which  be 
came  louder  and  louder."  Thus  the  wickedness  of  the  rioters  is 


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palliated ;  and  the  various  infuriating  and  combustible  paragraphs 
published  in  the  newspapers,  of  some  of  which  Dr.  Reese  himself 
was  the  author,  are  called  "  remonstrance  and  rebuke  ;"  as  if  the 
remonstrances  and  rebukes  of  men  who  uphold  Slavery,  and  com 
promise  with  Slaveholders,  merited  from  honest  men,  and  con 
sistent  Christians,  any  other  notice  than  profound  contempt  and 
utter  execration. 

It  is  an  old  and  correct  saying,  "  Liars  should  have  a  good 
memory."  In  the  preface,  it  is  stated,  that  the  rioters  are  not  ig 
norant  and  depraved;  but  page  41,  those  same  wise  and  incorrupt 
persons  are  denominated  an  "  infuriated  populace,  driven  to  mad 
ness."  Notwithstanding  their  fury  and  mania,  Dr.  Reese  admin 
isters  not  any  loud  rebuke  to>  those  furious  madmen,  for  pelting 
brick-bats  against  churches,  and  for  burning  sofas,  and  beds,  and 
chairs.  Fearing,  however,  that  this  soft  mode  of  censuring  the 
"infuriated  populace,  driven  to  madness,"  might  not  be  acceptable 
even  to  them  who  "  go  with  the  South !"  the  Doctor  says  in  his 
next  paragraph,  "  the  liberty  of  speech  and  of  the  press  belongs  to 
every  citizen"  This  cannot  be  true,  not  only  as  is  proved  by 
the  New  York  riots,  but  even  by  the  testimony  of  Dr.  Reese, 
who,  in  the  preface  to  his  review  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society,  very 
plainly  tells  his  readers  that  if  they  use  their  right  of  speaking  and 
printing  their  opinions,  they  "  will  involve  themselves  in  greater 
calamities." 

With  this  most  peaceful  menace,  Dr.  Reese  connects  the  follow 
ing  veracious  assertion.  "  The  perpetrators  of  those  deeds  of  vio 
lence  have  been  subjected  to  the  penalties  of  the  law."  Who  are 
they?  Some  few  "ignorant  and  depraved"  creatures  have  been 
punished  ;  but,  according  to  Dr.  Reese's  avowal,  the  true  authors, 
contrivers,  and  ringleaders  of  the  riots,  those  men  who  are  not  "  ig 
norant  and  depraved,"  have  escaped.  Will  Dr.  Reese  answer  this 
question  :  Who  are  they  ?  And  we  appeal  to  him  expressly,  because 
no  person  in  New  York  more  accurately  could  recount  their  names, 
than  the  chief  artificer  of  that  doleful  iniquity. 

Here  is  a  pamphlet  blazoned  forth  to  the  world,  as  containing 
the  oracular  dogmas  of  the  boasted  David  M.  Reese,  M.  D.  the 
New  York  pro-slavery  "  Magnus  Apollo  /"  This  same  oracular 
authority  assures  us,  that  if  the  friends  of  human  liberty  attempt  a 
renewal  of  their  meetings  and  addresses  any  where  in  the  United 
States,  even  "from  views  of  Christian  duty,"  they  shall  not  only 
have  their  churches  destroyed,  their  houses  dilapidated,  and  their 
personal  safety  endangered,  but  that  they  "  will  involve  themselves 
in  still  greater  calamities."  \Ve  call  upon  Dr.  Reese  plainly  to  tell 
us,  what  calamities  he  means'?  The  Anti-Slavery  citizens  have  ex 
perienced  the  gripe  of  the  house-breaker,  and  have  been  tried  by 
fire  :  are  they  to  be  dosed  with  Prussic  acid  1 

II.  Calumny.  David  M.  Reese,  M.  D.  supplies  us  with  two 
kinds  of  this  pestilential  drug.  One  species  applies  to  individuals; 
the  other  refers  to  the  opinions  and  acts  of  the  American  Anti- 
Slavery  Society. 


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The  following  list  comprises  a  part  only  of  the  labels  which  Dr. 
Reese  has  applied  to  his  medicines  ;  all  of  which,  sold  for  12^ 
cents  per  package,  are  certified  to  be  genuine  by  the  sole  manufac 
turer  himself.  Dr.  Reese  thus  proves  the  truth  of  the  apostles' 
words,  James  iii.  6,  &,c.  "  The  tongue  boasteth  great  things." 

Dr.  Reese's  anti-fanatical  nomenclature.  The  following  labels 
are  extracted  from  Dr.  Reese's  chemical  vocabulary  of  pro-slavery 
nostrums,  which  he  vends  as  genuine  prescriptions  from  the  evan 
gelical  materia  medica  to  cure  the  frenzy  of  the  Fanatics  for  the 
abolition  of  American  Slavery. 

Rash  impetuosity  ; 

Moral  obliquities ; 

Fanaticism ; 

Declamation ; 

Presumptuous  effrontery ; 

Raw  recruits  of  emancipation  ; 

Kindred  stupidity ; 

Absurdity  ; 

Derision  of  the  universe  ; 


Political  "heresies  ; 
Delusion ; 
Dogmatism  ; 
Imposture ; 

Novices  in  philanthropy ; 
Insignificance ; 
Folly  ; 
Untruth ; 

Consummate  arrogance ; 
Brazen  untruths ; 
Obliquity  of  mental  vision  ; 
Insanity  of  development ; 
Nation  of  mulattoes  and  mon 
grels  ; 

Criminal  amalgamation; 
Foreign  zealots  ; 
Imported  demagogues ; 
Unsophisticated  nullification ; 
Poetry ; 
Infatuation ; 
Malignity; 
Extravagance ; 
Hyperbole  ; 
Excess  of  bitterness ; 
Indiscretion ; 
Exaggeration  ; 
Foreign  emissary ; 
Fiery  zeal ; 
Obscurity ; 
Audacity; 

Perpetuity  of  infamy ; 
Stereotyped  malignity  ; 
Ravings  of  a  madman  ; 
Alarmino-  and  treasonable  sen- 

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timents ; 
Foul  slander  ; 
Traitors ; 
Stupid  Calumny ; 
Outrageous   recklessness   of 

truth  ; 


Shameless  extravagance  ; 

Insanity  ; 

Obtusity  of  moral  feeling; 

Visionary  enthusiasts; 

Unnatural  and  offensive  amal 
gamation  ; 

Infamy  ; 

Foreign  incendiary  ; 

Abstract  wickedness; 

Rhapsody ; 

Incendiary  press; 

Weakness  ; 

Rant ; 

Fiction ; 

Calumny ; 

Puerility  ; 

Falsehood  ; 

Ignorant  Americans; 

Vulgarity ; 

Hardihood  ; 

Wholesale  slander; 

Disgusting  exhibition  ; 

Treason ; 

Kindred  Gall ; 

Combustibility  ; 

Calumniator ; 

Stereotyped  calumny  ; 

Inflammatory  harangue; 

Didactic  and  dogmatical  aver 
ments  ; 

Intemperate  declamation ; 


With  about  an  equal  number  of  varieties  in  lighter  and  less  po 
tent  and  pungent  alteratives  for  the  Anti-Slavery  fanatics. 

Dr.  Reese  seems  to  have  acted  upon  the  old  rule ;  "  throw  dirt 
enough,  and  some  of  it  may  stick  :"  for  the  above  are  only  a  part 
of  the  labels  with  which  that  sapient  M.  D.  hopes  to  gull  the  sim 
ple.  All  these  patent  pills,  boluses  and  draughts,  with  as  many 
more,  quant,  suff.  are  put  up  in  packages,  and  sold  for  ten  dollars 
per  hundred,  certified  to  be  genuine  by  the  Inventor. 

We  shall  now  examine  his  direct  and  intended  personal  calumny 
respecting  individuals.  In  the  note,  pages  22  and  23,  it  is  said, 
"  A  foreigner  who  professes  to  be  a  minister  of  the  gospel,  has  been 
lately  figuring  to  the  East.  The  records  of  the  General  Assembly 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  show  that  this  same  foreign  incendia 
ry,  a  few  years  ago,  received  the  highest  ecclesiastical  censure  of 
that  body,  for  cruelty  and  inhumanity  to  his  own  servants,  in  one 
of  our  slave  States.  He  is  yet  peregrinating  through  the  North 
and  East,  declaiming  against  the  cruelties  of  slaveholding,  which 
he  knows  by  experience,  and  in  conjunction  with  another  foreign 
emissary,  instructing  the  ignorant  Americans  in  the  laws  and  in 
stitutions  of  their  own  country  !  Patriotism  and  Christianity  alike 
forbid  our  citizens  to  listen  to  such  officious  intermeddling  in  our 
country's  affairs  by  these  imported  demagogues."  All  this  is  the 
pure  fiction  of  the  lying  spirit !  No  such  foreign  minister  of  the 
gospel  exists.  No  such  censure  can  be  found  in  the  records  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  No  such  person  is  now  or  ever  has  been  pere 
grinating  at  the  North  and  East ! 

Dr.  Reese  affirms,  that  Mr.  Breckinridge  has  burned  the  brand 
of  calumniator  in  Mr.  Thome's  forehead.  The  brand  was  so  light 
ly  impressed,  that  it  is  not  legible :  for  Mr.  Thome's  statements  are 
"truth,  and  nothing  but  the  truth."  How  ought  the  fabricator  of 
the  above  wilful  and  malicious  falsehood  and  calumny  to  be  brand 
ed  1  for  although  that  gross  fiction  was  published  expressly  to  dis 
grace  the  Presbyterians,  yet  Dr.  Reese  knew,  that  no  person  was 
ever  so  censured  and  employed ;  and,  consequently,  he  is  like  the 
master  whom  he  serves,  and  whom  the  Judge  described,  John  viii. 
44.  This  is  David  M.  Reese's  character,  testified  by  his  own  rela 
tives,  and  avowed  by  all  the  Methodists  of  Baltimore  both  of  the 
old  side  and  of  the  reformers,  exclusive  of  other  female  witnesses 
who  could  be  cited  in  confirmation. 

The  first  gentleman  who  is  honored  with  Dr.  Reese's  critical 
castigation,  is  the  Rev.  Amos  A.  Phelps,  whose  irrefutable  argu 
ment  at  the  Anti-Slavery  meeting  in  May,  is  very  summarily  dis 
posed  of  as  "folly,  extravagance,  vanity,  hyperbole,  fiction,  and 
the  excess  of  bitterness  of  a  newly  fledged  agent,  and  his  itinerant 
declamation."  This  is  too  bad !  Here  is  a  man  whose  pretensions 
to  medical  science  were  the  ridicule  of  all  Baltimore,  crying  down 
Mr.  Phelps'  self-evident  momentous  truths  as  a  sort  of  half  hatched 
creatures  of  no  more  value,  than  the  nostrums  which  a  Charlatan 
crams  down  the  throats  of  his  credulous  female  patients.  Verily, 
if  Christian  doctrine  and  invulnerable  morals  and  logic  are  thus 


flippantly  to  be  scouted  out  of  the  world  by  impudence  and  base 
epithets,  we  may  at  once  discard  all  the  blessings  of  liberty,  wis 
dom  and  religion. 

Then  follows  Mr.  Thome  in  the  gallery  of  caricatures,  distorted 
by  this  dauber.  He  is  sneeringly  portrayed  as  "  a  boy  who  may 
sometime  or  other  be  a  man."  He  is  also  tenderly  rebuked  as  "  a 
fool,  a  calumniator  with  windy  eloquence,  arid  a  falsifier,  vulgar,  ob 
scene  and  disgusting."  This  is  a  very  compendious  mode  of  blot 
ting  out  those  vivid  and  accurate  delineations  which  vice  seeks  to 
conceal ;  but  this  besmearing  process  does  not  destroy  the  reality, 
any  more  than  the  sight  of  fifty  members  of  Dr.  Reese's  "  nation 
of  mulattoes  and  mongrels,"  in  a  slave  quarter,  disproves  the  prac 
tice  of  "  criminal  amalgamation."  Mr.  Thome's  statements  are 
true,  as  all  persons  know  who  have  ever  been  at  the  South ;  but  the 
most  melancholy  connected  fact  is  this,  that  his  descriptions  are 
greatly  defective. 

The  Rev.  Beriah  Green  is  next  dosed  with  a  decanter  of  Dr. 
Reese's  wormwood  and  gall.  However,  as  the  prescription  has  not 
yet  operated  so  as  to  change  Mr.  Green's  moral  taste,  it  may  be 
presumed  that  the  sapient  Baltimore  M.  D.  will  either  send  him 
to  the  lunatic  asylum,  or  to  that  hospital  of  incurables,  the  State 
prison,  or  the  gallows.  Dr.  Reese  pronounces  that  Mr.  Green  is 
raving  inad,  and  a  malignant  traitor.  Assuredly,  the  Christians  at 
Whitestown  must  be  a  most  extraordinary  society  of  people,  to  ap 
point,  as  the  President  of  a  Seminary  for  the  preparatory  education 
of  young  men  for  the  gospel  ministry,  and  even  to  permit  a  citizen 
to  go  at  large,  a  raving  madman  and  a  malignant  traitor.  We  do 
not  believe  that  the  Whitestown  Instructer  is  either  a  Judas  or  a 
lunatic;  and,  certainly,  the  moral  and  physical  characteristics  of  a 
malignant  traitor  and  raving  madman,  cannot  be  deduced  from  the 
speech  which  he  delivered  at  the  Anti-Slavery  meeting  in  May. 
Dr.  Reese's  brief  review  contains  too  much  and  too  lengthened  de 
liberate  corruption  and  malice  to  permit  us  charitably  to  believe 
that  he  is  deranged,  except  by  "  obtusity  of  moral  feeling ;"  but 
that  he  is  guilty  of  "  stereotyped  malignity  and  calumny,"  is  evi 
dent  from  his  pamphlet ;  and  that  he  is  equally  chargeable  with  the 
turpitude  of  treason  in  reference  to  his  friends  and  associates,  is  no 
torious  among  all  the  Methodists  in  Baltimore  and  New  York. 

This  renowned  Chemist  had  mixed  up  so  much  "  kindred  gall 
and  combustibility"  in  the  dose  which  he  prepared  for  Mr.  Green, 
that  his  stock  of  those  articles  being  temporarily  exhausted,  Mr. 
Ludlow  is  drugged  with  merely  a  mild  drench  of  sour  milk,  flavour 
ed  with  wormwood  and  asafoetida. 

It  could  not  be  expected  that  William  Lloyd  Garrison,  whom 
Dr.  Reese  has  belied  and  slandered  until  he  laughs  at  his  own  de 
ceptions,  could  pass  without  notice ;  much  less  that  Charles  Stuart, 
who  so  fearlessly  attested  to  the  authenticity  of  the  certificate  given 
by  Wilberforce,  and  the  other  chiefs  of  the  Anti-Slavery  cause  in 
Britain,  would  escape  the  filth  which  Dr.  Reese  throws  about.  But 
as  even  he  had  not  the  hardihood  to  abuse  speeches  which  were  not 


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made,  those  two  champions  are  only  bespattered  with  a  small  sprink 
ling  of  the  Doctor's  boiling  hot  blister  water. 

Then  follows  the  maiming  of  Mr.  Jocelyn.  Dr.  Reese  comforts 
him  with  a  phial  of  "  gall  which  can  never  be  sweetened."  Ac 
cording  to  Dr.  Reese,  Mr.  Jocelyn  is  "  so  good  a  man,"  and  has 
told  his  lies  so  often,  that  he  now  believes  his  own  lies  to  be  true. 
The  Doctor  also  laments  that  Mr.  Jocelyn  should  be  "  found  in 
such  employment,"  telling  lies  for  truth,  and  "  in  such  company" 
as  he  keeps;  whom  he  also  most  sagaciously  describes  as  "good 
men  deceiving  others,  while  themselves  are  deceived."  We  have 
some  acquaintance  with  Mr.  Jocelyn's  associates,  and  can  assure 
the  Chemical  Lecturer  from  Baltimore,  that  the  worst  company  we 
ever  saw  him  in,  was  when  he  condescended  to  meet  R.  S.  Finley 
at  Clinton  Hall,  and  quietly  take  his  "  stereotyped  calumny  and 
malignity"  without  retort.  Dr.  Reese's  pill,  which  is  nothing  but 
the  "  excess  of  bitterness"  sugared  over  with  "  folly  and  fiction," 
is  so  extremely  nauseating,  that  Mr.  Jocelyn  will  not  swallow  it. 

As  the  Doctor  proceeds  with  the  subjects  of  his  chemical  analy 
sis,  he  handles  them  more  roughly;  and  as  he  had  felt  a  momen 
tary  qualm  respecting  the  putting  of  Mr.  Jocelyn  in  his  air  ex 
hauster,  he  resolved  to  apply  his  machinery  in  all  its  power  to  tor 
ture  the  next  subject,  Mr.  May,  who,  according  to  Dr.  Reese's  ac 
count  of  his  disease,  is  a  most  alarming  traitor,  that  ought  to  be 
consigned  instantly  to  universal  reprobation.  The  Doctor's  poison 
has  not  yet  killed  him.  *  suppose,  that  the  gospel  which  Mr.  May 
habitually  takes  is  so  potent,  that  all  the  deadly  nostrums  which 
quackery  furnishes  cannot,  alas!  destroy  him.  This  Mr.  May,  ac 
cording  to  Dr.  Reese's  description  of  his  morbid  symptoms,  must 
be  the  eighth  wonder  of  the  world.  He  is  a  tnost  impious  prophet, 
full  of  combustibility  and  foul  slander,  who,  as  a  calumniator  and 
traitor,  merits  general  indignation. 

In  writing  thus  of  peaceful  and  inoffensive  citizens,  decorated 
with  some  of  the  most  valuable  and  brilliant  ornaments  of  humanity, 
Dr.  Reese  declares  that  he  is  actuated  only  by  good  will  to  those 
persons  ;  and  that  the  moderation,  which,  kind-hearted  soul !  he  dis 
plays,  is  the  concentrated  essence  of  patriotism,  philanthropy  and 
religion.  Undeniable  facts  as  narrated  by  Mr.  Jocelyn  and  Mr. 
May,  are  "stereotyped  falsehood,"  and  their  infallible  arguments, 
according  to  this  superlative  M.  D.,  are  the  combustibility  of  hell  ; 
but  his  own  perversions  and  slanders,  according  to  his  own  esti 
mate,  by  "  insanity  of  development,"  are  vital  and  refined  Chris 
tianity.  Admit  the  claim — but  what  kind  of  Christianity  is  it? 
The  only  reply  which  can  be  given  is  this  :  Dr.  Reese's  Chris 
tianity,  as  thus  described,  is  no  more  like  the  requisition  of  the 
gospels,  than  a  Judas-like  betrayment  of  friends,  and  the  flagrant 
transgressions  of  the  seventh  commandment. 

Mr.  Pomeroy  next  experiences  the  ingenuity,  with  which  a 
Maryland  M.  D.  can  dissect  a  poor  wight  from  New  England. 
That  gentleman  is  described  by  Dr.  Reese  as  a  highly  inflamma 
tory  Jesuit  haranguer  of  palpable  falsehoods,  signalized  by  an  out- 


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rageous  recklessness  of  truth.  If  the  Doctor  from  the  South  ad 
ministers  medicines  of  this  exciting  nature  to  his  patients  in  a  burn 
ing  fever,  his  professional  skill  must  pass  undisputed,  for  dead  men 
tell  nu  talcs  !  It  happens,  however,  that  the  very  passages  which 
Dr.  Reese  quotes  as  specimens  of  slander,  misrepresentation  and 
exaggeration,  are  merely  a  development  of  the  laws  of  the  Southern 
States  in  reference  to  the  cases  cited.  So  that  it  admits  of  no  dis 
pute  which  of  the  parties,  the  M.  D.  who  was  the  laughing  stock 
of  Baltimore  for  his  impudent  ignorance,  and  who  absconded  from 
that  city  on  account  of  his  "  moral  obliquities,"  as  he  calls  them  ; 
or  the  upright  Christian  minister  of  Bangor,  acts  out  the  unhallow 
ed  sentiment,  that  "  the  end  justifies  the  means."  If  that  has 
not  been  the  only  or  the  chief  rule  of  action  of  one  M.  D.  in  New 
York  ibr  the  last  ten  or  twelve  years,  then  his  father  and  cousin 
are  not  acquainted  with  their  relations,  and  all  the  Methodists, 
"every  where  in  the  land,"  are  egregiously  mistaken. 

Dr.  Reese  wishes  to  obtain  practice  by  any  means.  Fees  are  all 
to  him.  Notoriety  gathers  fees.  "Audacity  and  calumny"  insure 
notoriety  ;  because  they  interest  not  only  the  impaled  and  abused 
victim,  but  also  all  his  irritated  friends.  Therefore,  the  more  ex 
tensively  and  virulently  Dr.  Reese  scatters  his  "  firebrands,  arrows 
and  deadly  poison,"  the  more  widely  will  he  be  known.  This  is 
the  only  source  of  Dr.  Reese's  pamphlet.  Not  one  word  does  he 
believe  of  all  that  he  has  written.  He  knows  that  the  Anti-Slave 
ry  men  are  sons  of  peace.  They  will  nrt  disturb  public  meetings, 
they  will  not  horsewhip,  or  tar  and  feather  him,  or  gut  his  house, 
or  pelt  bricks  and  stones  against  churches;  and  therefore  he  thinks, 
"  1  may  calumniate  and  falsify  with  impunity  "  All  fish  are  good 
that  arc  caught  in  his  net.  So  having,  as  he  supposes,  branded 
Mr.  Pomeroy  as  an  inflamed  arid  rabid  Jesuit,  he  next  lays  hold  of 
Mr.  Stanton,  and  having  felt  his  pulse,  the  sapient  M.  D.  solilo 
quizes  over  his  disorder  in  the  following  learned  technology. — 
"  Vilification  !  Madman  !  Stupidity  !  Dark  characteristics  !  False 
charge!  Calumny!  Black  man!  Late  farce  !  Secundum  artem !" 
From  all  which  we  are  taught,  that  Mr.  Stanton  is  a  stupid  mad 
man,  whose  "heart  is  as  black  as  his  skin!"  and  who  must  be 
doctored  secundum  artem,  that  is,  according  to  a  Charlatan's  far 
cical  practice.  We  are,  however,  of  opinion,  that  Mr.  Stanton's 
moral  and  mental  system  are  in  too  healthful  a  state  to  need  any  of 
Dr.  Reese's  "didactic  and  dogmatical  averments,"  even  in  the 
form  of  a  patent  nostrum. 

This  great  M.  D.  next  assails  his  old  friend,  Dr.  Cor,  whose  ad 
herence  to  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  baffles  all  his  medical  profun 
dity.  It  is  a  case  so  entirely  novel  and  unique,  that  the  symptoms 
defy  nil  the  Doctor's  skill  to  classify  them.  Dr.  Cox,  according  to 
his  old  friend's  account,  has  exhibited  his  habitual  long-standing 
malady  ;  "  arrogant  declamation  ;  egotism  ;  morbid  paroxysms  ; 
and  his  bad  eminence."  Hence  this  Baltimore  Esculapius,  con 
founded  with  the  strange  appearance  of  this  modern  antique  anom 
alous  disease,  unkindly  leaves  Dr.  Cox  as  a  hopeless  subject,  out  of 


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whom  no  pelf  can  be  extracted,  to  some  other  practitioner's  care 
and  skill  and  prescriptions. 

Dr.  Reese  has  a  peculiar  tact  of  showing  how  continually  he  re 
lapses  into  his  old  morbid  theory  and  base  practice  of  grossly  ob 
scuring  his  expressions,  so  that  they  may  mean  any  thing  which  he 
pleases.  Hence  although  the  "stereotyped  malignity,  bitterness, 
falsehood  and  calumny"  of  the  Doctor's  Review  are  ever  promi 
nent,  yet  in  some  places,  there  is  a  flat  contradiction  to  what  is 
said  in  others,  so  that  it  may  appear  after  the  example  of  the  boast 
ed  suitability  of  quack  medicine*  for  every  case,  that  the  Doctor  is 
always  right,  while  he  is  evidently  wrong. 

The  whole  of  the  Doctor's  "  excess  of  bitterness  and  insanity  of 
development"  against  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  i.s  comprized  in 
two  parts  :  Treason  and  Amalgamation.  Not  one  of  all  the  "  in 
furiated  populace,"  of  those  who  were  "driven  to  madness"  by 
ignorance,  depravity  and  rum,  and  of  their  accomplices  riot. igno 
rant  and  depraved,  who  were  impelled  toy  the  "  irrational  efferves 
cence"  of  the  combustible  draughts  and  pills  administered  in  the 
different  newspapers,  not  one  of  them  all  believes  that  any  member 
of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  is  guilty  either  of  treason  or  amalga 
mation.  Those  crimes  flourish  only  in  the  soil  of  slavery;  where 
the  former  is  the  progenitor  of  ail  evil,  and  the  latter  is  indigenous 
and  essential  to  that  wicked  system. 

Dr.  Reese  alleges  these  charges  of  treason  against  the  Anti- 
Slavery  Societies.  "  Those  who  thus  conspire  against  the  supreme 
authorities  of  the  knel,  endanger  the  very  existence  of  our  civil 
institutions,  and  gap  the  foundations  of  the  noble  edifice  of  Ameri 
can  freedom."  Page  10.  As  this  remark  is  exactly  adapted  for 
the  New  York  rioter?,  and  no  other  persons,  we  should  have  been 
glad  to  have  believed,  that  the  Doctor  meant  it  for  them ;  but  alas! 
through  his  "obliquity  of  mental  vision,  and  outrageous  reckless 
ness  of  truth,"  he  applies  this  "  stereotyped  malignity"  to  the  Anti- 
Slavery  Society.  Now,  it  is  only  necessary  to  remark,  that  the 
Anti-Slavery  Society  expressly  disavow  all  appeal  to  physical  force  ; 
and  declare  that  Congress  men,  under  the  present  national  com 
pact,  cannot  interfere  with  slavery,  except  in  the  District  of  Colum 
bia.  They  aver,  that  their  warfare  is  only  that  of  purity  against 
corruption,  of  truth  against  error,  and  of  love  against  prejudice; 
and  that  they  propose  to  abolish  slavery  only  by  exciting  the  spirit  of 
repentance  and  good  works  in  slaveholders.  Yet  this  most  holy 
and  righteous  scheme  is  denounced  by  Dr.  Reese  and  his  confede 
rates,  as  a  conspiracy  of  traitors  against  the  constitution  and  laws. 
There  is  no  greater  criminality  than  this  base  attempt  to  vilify  some 
of  the  best  Christians  in  our  land.  It  is  the  overt  act  of  murder, 
by  exposing  defenceless  citizens  to  the  ban  of  proscription,  and 
by  encouraging  infuriated  ruffians  to  butcher  them.  The  man 
who  writes  such  a  pamphlet  as  David  M.  Reese's  brief  review, 
is  equally  guilty  of  a  murderous  design,  as  though  he  wilfully 
administered  to  an  unconscious  sick  man,  arsenic  instead  of 
magnesia. 


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A  most  remarkable  eridence  of  the  melancholy  disposition  to 
falsify,  calumniate  and  inflict  "still  more  grievous  calamities,"  is 
developed  by  David  M.  Reese  on  page  21  of  his  review.  The 
Anti-Slavery  Society  say,  that  their  "zeal  and  energy,  when  kin 
dled  up  through  the  country,  will  sweep  away  the  bulwarks  of 
slavery."  All  persons  know,  that  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  merely 
intend  by  this  sentence  to  affirm,  that  the  influence  of  evangelical 
principles,  when  completely  and  universally  in  operation,  would  de 
stroy  that  unrighteousness  and  prejudice  which  are  the  cause  of 
slave-holding,  and  of  its  continuance.  The  Anti-Slavery  Society 
have  always,  collectively,  individually,  and  most  solemnly,  dis 
claimed  all  physical  contention.  Their  quiet  submission  to  the 
depredations  of  the  infuriated  and  irrational,  not  ignorant  and  de 
praved  men,  who  were  instigated  and  driven  to  madness  by  the 
falsehoods  and  butchering  manifestos  of  Dr.  Reese  and  his  part 
ners  in  that  iniquity,  proves  that  they  contend  not  with  the  warlike 
materials  of  Liberia,  rum,  guns  and  gunpowder.  All  the  weapons 
which  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  use  are  the  Bible,  the  Declaration 
of  Independence,  and  the  Bills  of  Rights  of  the  different  States, 
illustrated  according  to  the  most  pacific  principles  of  the  purest 
moral  philosophy.  To  crush  these  gospel  combatants,  and  to  ob 
tain  the  inglorious  victory  of  brute  force  over  spiritual  energy,  Dr. 
Reese  promulges  the  following  placard,  which  he  brags  will  be 
"  useful  at  the  present  crisis,  and  subserve  the  interests  of  patriot 
ism,  philanthropy  and  religion."  Listen  to  Dr.  Reese's  descrip 
tion  of  the  disorders  which  afflicts  the  Anti-Slavery  men,  and  of 
the  means  of  cure  which  his  vaunted  chemical  and  medical  skill 
propounds.  "  The  zeal  and  energy  of  this  collected  band  thus  open 
ly  arrayed  against  the  laws  is  no  less  treasonable,  and  ought  there 
fore  to  be  detected,  exposed,  and  defeated  in  its  incipient  progress, 
lest  the  impunity  extended  to  such  an  avowal  may  embolden  its  au 
thors  to  some  overt  act  of  outrage  and  treason."  That  is  right, 
Doctor !  Kill  them  off;  let  the  traitors  be  hung,  drawn  and  quar 
tered.  They  are  very  quiet  people,  those  Anti-Slavery  men,  now  ; 
but  if  you  let  them  alone  a  few  years,  rely  upon  it,  their  moral 
power,  their  zeal  and  energy,  will  overthrow  all  the  bulwarks  of 
slavery  in  America;  all  the  cupidity,  sensuality,  tortures,  agonies 
and  mischiefs  of  slavery.  To  hinder  this  event  so  contrary  to  Dr. 
Reese's  religion  !  just  raze  the  churches  where  the  fanatics  wor 
ship  Jesus  the  Prince  of  Liberators  and  Emancipators,  pull  down 
the  houses  of  the  traitors,  then  put  the  traitors  into  the  ruins,  and 
set  fire  to  the  whole  mass.  This  is  Dr.  Reese's  prescription  to  cure 
American  Anti-Slavery.  We  do  not,  however,  believe  that  it  can 
be  so  easily  administered  as  useless  nostrums  and  lying  reviews. 

Dr.  Reese  also  writes,  page  23  :  "  We  appeal  whether  such  a 
publication  is  not  incendiary  in  its  character,  and  unsophisticated 
nullification!"  What  is  this  incendiary  nullification?  Nothing 
but  a  quotation  from  Scripture,  Deut.  xxiii.  15,  16;  which  Dr. 
Reese,  or  as  he  is  entitled  by  his  abettors,  "  the  Right  Reverend 
Bishop  Reese,"  iu  his  marvellous  biblical  knowledge,  declares  has 


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not  the  least  bearing  on  American  slavery.  Mark  ye!  The  law 
of  God  has  nothing  to  do  with  American  legislation,  so  says  Dr. 
Reese;  and  so  say  all  the  slaveholders.  "Their  schemes  and  plans," 
writes  Bishop  Reese,  page  42,  "  are  treasonable  in  their  charac 
ter;  involving  the  overthrow  of  our  civil  institutions,  and  the  dis 
solution  of  our  national  compact;  they  are  at  war  with  the  laws  of 
the  land,  as  well  as  with  a  repugnance  deep,  universal  and  invin 
cible.  The  means  they  employ  are  calculated  to  engender  civil 
strife,  servile  war,  insurrection  and  bloodshed."  To  use  Dr.  Reese's 
own  words,  this  is  the  "  stereotyped  malignity  and  calumny"  with 
which  the  devil  and  his  slaves  in  all  ages  have  attempted  to  silence 
and  destroy  the  servants  of  God.  Thus  Ahab  belied  Elijah.  Thus 
the  courtiers  of  Zedekiah  slandered  Jeremiah.  Thus  the  Jews 
calumniated  the  Lord  Jesus  and  his  apostles.  Thus  Nero  vilified 
the  primitive  martyrs.  Thus  the  Monks  and  Friars  reproached  the 
Reformers.  Thus  the  minions  of  the  English  government  abused 
the  original  Puritans,  and  the  Congress  of  1776:  and  thus  the 
West  India  Slaveholders  defamed  Clarkson,  Wilberforce,  and  the 
host  of  other  abolitionists  in  Britain. 

Dr.  Reese  can  find  as  much  of  this  "stereotyped  malignity  and 
calumny"  in  all  its  "  insanity  of  development"  ready  manufactur 
ed,  as  his  companions,  the  rioters,  can  publish  ;  but  it  is  all  equally 
untrue  when  applied  to  existing  Anti-Slavery  men,  as  it  was  when 
asserted  of  their  sainted  predecessors  in  the  holy  warfare.  The 
author  of  the  Review  well  knew  when  he  was  copying  that  para 
graph  from  some  of  the  old  sons  of  Belial,  those  malignant  enemies 
of  God  and  man,  that  he  was  only  casting  a  firebrand  among  his 
infuriated  associates,  afresh  to  scorch  and  goad  them  on  to  mad 
ness ;  and  then  he  will  again  blame  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  for 
the  storm  which  their  ruthless  foes  had  raised. 

No  stronger  and  unequivocal  proof  of  the  depravity  of  man,  and 
of  the  identity  of  the  human  character  as  impelled  by  sin,  can  be 
alleged  than  David  M.  Reese's  review.  Every  effort  to  overthrow 
long  established  and  deeply  rooted  iniquity  has  ever  been  opposed, 
in  exact  proportion  to  the  number  of  persons  interested  in  the  con 
tinuance  of  the  ungodly  system.  Thus  it  is  with  American  slavery. 
No  person  expects  that  the  deepest  wickedness  which  has  so  long 
been  cemented  with  the  whole  frame  of  society  in  the  South,  and 
rendered  apparently  innocent  by  legislative  enactments,  and  which 
has  poisoned  and  corrupted  the  whole  body  politic,  could  be  reme 
died  and  extirpated  without  potent  medicines.  No  Christian  ever 
could  for  a  moment  anticipate  that  the  moral  renovation  comprized 
in  the  extermination  of  slavery  could  be  accomplished  without  a 
fearful  struggle  on  the  part  of  them  who  have  so  long  fattened  and 
luxuriated  in  despotism,  indolence  and  sensuality.  The  very  ar 
gument  which  is  thus  proposed,  and  the  outcries  which  are  made 
against  the  Anti-Slavery  men  being  exactly  the  same  which  in  all 
ages  have  been  adduced  against  the  preachers  and  advocates  of 
truth  and  righteousness,  infallibly  proclaim  that  the  Anti-Slavery 


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cause  is  the  cause  of  God,  and  that  it  will  eventually  triumph  over 
all  "  the  works  of  darkness,  and  the  workers  of  iniquity." 

II.  Amalgamation.  No  other  evidence  is  requisite  to  prove  that 
David  M.  Reese  wrote  his  review  by  the  instigation  of  the  devil 
than  the  simple  fact,  that  his  false  and  wicked  allegations  against 
the  Anti-Slavery  men  are  exactly  those  which  are  calculated  to 
drive  on  the  infuriated  sons  of  mischief  to  madness.  The  charge 
of  treason  supplies  combustibles  for  the  fire  of  revenge  in  all  the 
pretended  patriots  who  shout  for  liberty  on  the  fourth  of  July  amid 
potations  of  inflammatory  punch.  And  the  uproar  respecting  amal 
gamation  irritates  two  classes  ol  persons  beyond  endurance.  The 
slaveholders  cannot  bear  the  mention  of  that  subject  because  it  re 
minds  them  of  their  "  nation  of  mulattoes  and  mongrels  !"  That  is 
a  lovely  title  for  the  illegitimate  and  incestuous  offspring  of  the 
slaveholders !  and  the  ignorant  and  vicious  and  degraded  among 
the  white  population  of  the  large  sea-ports  rejoice  in  an  excuse  to 
have  an  affray  with  the  coloured  people,  as  much  as  Southern  plan 
ters  delight  to  start  with  their  rifles  and  dogs  upon  a  "  negro  hunt," 
to  catch,  worry,  maim  or  shoot  runaway  slaves.  That  all  the  out 
cry  respecting  amalgamation  is  a  flagrant  cheat,  is  indisputable 
from  two  facts,  both  of  which  are  as  notorious  as  the  sunshine. 
One  is,  that  throughout  the  whole  United  States,  probably  not 
seven  men  and  women  can  be  found  of  different  colours  who  are 
united  in  matrimonial  bonds.  The  second  is,  that  amalgamation 
is  never  disowned  except  when  the  woman  is  free.  The  amalga 
mation  of  white  men  with  coloured  women,  if  slaves,  is  general  in 
all  the  slave  districts.  In  fact,  the  exceptions  are  almost  indiscov- 
erable.  You  cannot  walk  through  a  slave  quarter  without  the  pal 
pable  evidence  of  it.  The  men  and  women  slaves  are  black,  but 
the  children  are  of  different  lighter  hues;  this  is  seen  in  the  kitchen, 
as  well  as  in  the  field.  Not  only  is  the  African  colour  changed, 
but  the  African  distinctive  features  are  obliterated.  No  man  at 
the  South  ever  cries  out  against  amalgamation,  so  long  as  a  female 
slave  is  concerned  ;  it.  is  a  free  coloured  woman  only  who  is  the  ob 
ject  of  aversion  ;  and  the  sole  cause  is  this,  because  the  offspring  of 
the  licentious  intercourse  cannot  be  grasped  and  sold  as  property. 

Upon  this  loathsome  subject  Dr.  Reese  has  uttered  some  "  stupid 
calumny,"  which  shows  an  "outrageous  recklessness  of  truth  :" 
we  select  one  specimen  of  that  M.  D.'s  extraordinary  deceitfulness. 
"  One  or  more  dining  parties  had  been  given  for  whites  and  blacks 
promiscuously,  and  in  several  churches  coloured  persons  had  been 
introduced  into  the  pews  with  white  people,  nolens  volens."  The 
fact  is  this,  that  one  or  two  coloured  ministers  of  the  gospel  were 
invited  to  dine  with  other  Christians  and  ministers  :  and  is  there 
any  more  amalgamation  in  this  intercourse,  thau  in  those  ministers 
being  seated  in  the  same  conference  or  presbytery  for  the  transac 
tion  of  ecclesiastical  business,  or  in  communing  together  at  the  table 
of  the  Lord?  No.  The  only  existing  amalgamation  in  the  United 
States  is  this  :  slaveholders  purchase  likely  breeding  wenches  ;  and 
when  they  have  become  the  mothers  of  four  or  seven  "  mulattoes 


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and  mongrels,"  to  use  Dr.  Reese's  elegant  phrase,  then  they  sell 
the  woman  and  their  own  offspring  at  an  advanced  price  for  their 
lighted  colour  and  improved  form,  the  girls  for  prostitution,  and  the 
boys  for  drudgery.  The  whole  of  Dr.  Reese's  pamphlet  is  a 
"  tissue  of  rant,  hyperbole  and  fiction,  and  is  characterized  by  an 
excess  of  bitterness  which  carries  with  it  its  own  refutation  ;"  and 
especially  when  his  own  exemplary  and  edifying  "obtusity  of  moral 
feeling,"  is  alleged  in  corroboration  of  his  "folly  and  extrava 
gance." 

III.  Perversion  and  misrepresentation.  Although  the  slander  of 
an  individual  may  be  more  immediately  operative,  yet  the  reproaches 
heaped  upon  the  cause  of  religion  are  more  extensively  mischiev 
ous.  A  private  citizen  is  known  but  in  a  small  circle  compara 
tively  ;  his  friends  despise  the  calumny  and  pity  the  revilers  ;  or  he 
may  live  down  and  survive  the  stigma  and  its  authors.  But  what 
tongue  can  describe  or  what  imagination  conceive  the  awful  effects 
of  destroying  the  influence  of  religious  truth,  and  paralyzing  the 
efforts  or  intimidating  the  zeal  of  the  advocates  of  the  rights  of 
man  and  the  purity  of  evangelical  principles?  Dr.  Reese's  guilt, 
in  the  mass  of  virtuperative  falsehoods  concerning  individuals 
which  he  has  concocted,  is  unspeakably  less,  than  that  spirit  of  ir 
religious  distortion  with  which  his  pamphlet  is  replete.  We  shall 
extract  but  a  few  examples  ;  because  if  all  his  misrepresentations 
of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society's  fundamental  principles,  and  his  false 
accusations  of  individuals,  and  his  stereotyped  malignant  epithets 
and  phrases  were  expunged  from  his  brief  review,  the  rest  of  his 
jargon  and  malice  would  be  like  salt  which  has  lost  its  savour. 
Luke  xiv.  34,  35.  Men  would  cast  it  out. 

On  page  9,  Dr.  Reese  recommends  his  review  as  "the  truth, 
the  whole  truth,  and  nothing  but  the  truth."  In  reply,  we  assert, 
that  his  pamphlet  is  falsehood,  all  falsehood,  and  nothing-  but 
falsehood.  His  first  prominent  remark  applies  to  that  part  of  the 
declaration  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  which  asserts,  that  "scarce 
ly  a  rill  of  pity  for  the  slave"  existed  at  the  organization  of  the 
New  England  Anti-Slavery  Society  in  1832.  This  Dr.  Reese  calls 
"  brazen  untruth."  Now  we  maintain  its  perfect  consonance  with 
fact.  A  few  scattered  individuals  at  various  periods,  have  been 
alive  upon  the  subject  of  slavery,  but  during  more  than  thirty  years 
past,  all  the  Abolition  and  tfye  Manumission  Societies  have  been 
nearly  asleep:  and  no  power  could  awaken  them  to  reflection,  feel 
ing  and  activity,  in  any  measure  adequate  to  the  claims  of  the 
times,  or  the  agonies  of  the  sufferers. 

He  proceeds  on  pages  14,  15  and  16,  to  falsify  the  plainest  lan 
guage,  that  he  may  disgrace  the  friends  of  human  freedom  by  charg 
ing  upon  them  the  offensive  practice  of  sanctioning  the  matrimonial 
intercourse  between  the  whites  and  the  coloured  people.  To  this 
end,  the  most  obvious  phrases  are  distorted  ;  and  motives  are  im 
puted,  which  this  M.  D.  knows  never  were  encouraged. 

He  has  designedly  perverted  the  claim  to  the  possession  of  com 
mon  and  natural  rights  of  freedom,  education,  the  acquisition  of 


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property,  the  matrimonial  covenant,  &,c.  into  an  outcry  for  inter 
marriage  between  the  different  races;  and  this  wilful  misrepresen 
tation  he  has  made  expressly  to  injure  the  sacred  cause  of  religion 
and  liberty.  The  Doctor's  criminality  is  aggravated  by  the  con 
sideration  that  he  knows  the  wilful  baseness  which  he  was  perpe 
trating;  and  also  that  he  was  aware  of  all  the  evil  consequences 
which  would  ensue  from  this  appeal  to  the  worst  passions  of  his 
ignorant  and  depraved  and  infuriated  counterparts.  From  the  14th 
to  the  18th  page,  the  Doctor's  review  is  occupied  with  this  subject, 
including  a  phrenological  extract  from  some  pro-slavery  writer  at 
Edinburgh,  who  knows  nothing  at  all  upon  the  subject;  as  is  prov 
ed  by  one  of  his  statements.  "  The  distinction  in  the  United 
States  is  white  and  black,  with  little  of  the  intervening  shades  of 
colour.  The  races  do  not  and  will  not  incorporate."  In  contradic 
tion  to  this  "  tale  of  a  tub,"  all  persons  who  are  acquainted  with 
the  slave  States  know,  that  in  many  parts  of  them,  scarcely  a  sin 
gle  black  person  can  be  found  ;  that  one  third  at  least  of  all  the 
slaves  now  in  America  are  the  progeny  of  the  slaveholders;  arid 
that  the  increase  of  the  whitewashed  people  of  different  hues,  the 
consequence  of  the  continual  incorporation  of  the  races,  is  far 
more  rapid  in  proportion  than  that  of  any  other  -species  of  the 
American  population. 

The  doctor  next  quotes  the  following  irrefutable  propositions 
from  the  Anti-Slavery  Society's  Report.  1.  "  The  colonization  of 
the  free  has  no  tendency  to  diminish  the  number  of  the  slaves. 
2.  The  free  coloured  population  are  opposed  to  the  scheme;"  that 
is,  African  colonization.  8.  "Colonies  are  not  adapted  to  Chris 
tianize  Africa."  These  propositions  the  sapient  M.  D.  declares 
are  "both  arithmetically  and  morally  untrue;"  and  he  adds,  a 
"  single  commentary  upon  them  would  prove  that  he  possessed  kin 
dred  stupidity  with  the  authors."  Let  us  examine  what  David  M. 
Reese's  denial  is  worth.  The  Colonization  Society  has  sent  off 
perhaps,  2000  free  coloured  persons  to  Africa,  in  eighteen  years, 
and  the  slaves  have  increased  nearly  a  million  :  and  yet  David  M. 
Reese  asserts  that  the  colonizing  scheme  diminishes  the  number  of 
the  slaves  !  The  free  coloured  people  say  they  are  opposed  to  be 
ing  transported  to  the  Slaveholders'  African  Botany  Bay,  and  will 
not  go  with  their  own  consent.  Dr.  Reese  on  the  contrary  de 
clares,  that  this  is  "arithmetically  and  morally  untrue;"  when  at 
the  same  time  neither  by  bribes  nor  threats,  can  the  colonizers  in 
duce  them  to  ship  themselves  off  to  Liberia;  and  they  are  accu 
mulating  in  a  great  geometrical  ratio  in  the  United  States.  The 
American  Anti-Slavery  Society  affirm,  that  such  colonists  as  those 
who  have  been  banished  to  Liberia,  newly  emancipated  slaves,  un 
educated,  undisciplined,  ignorant,  without  morality  and  religion, 
who  live  in  Africa  by  selling  to  slave-traders,  Hum,  Guns,  Cut 
lasses,  and  Gunpowder,  with  other  warlike  weapons  and  combusti 
bles,  cannot  evangelize  Africa.  David  M.  Reese  declares  that  this 
proposition  is  "  both  arithmetically  and  morally  untrue  ;"  notwith 
standing  no  account  exists  of  native  conversions  or  of  the  influence 


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of  morality  and  religion  among  the  Africans,  through  the  instru 
mentality  of  those  traffickers  in  the  articles  of  war. 

The  Anti-Slavery  Society  say,  4.  "  That  nothing  but  the  preju 
dice  of  the  whites  renders  the  removal  of  the  blacks  at  all  desira 
ble!"  In  reply  to  this,  Dr.  Reese  adduces  Fothegill,  Sharp,  Wil- 
berforce,  Clarkson  and  Lafayette,  as  witnesses,  when  it  is  indubi 
table,  that  they  were  of  the  same  opinion  as  the  Anti-Slavery  So 
ciety.  The  American  slaveholders  and  their  confederates  whom 
he  alleges  as  testimony  are  inadmissible  :  as  they  are  only  witnesses 
for  their  own  cause.  Jt  is  also  overwhelming  confutation  of  David 
M.  Reese's  sturdy  denial  of  truth,  that  the  prejudice  against  the 
coloured  people  only  exists  towards  them  who  are  free,  and  not  to 
the  slave.  As  long  as  they  are  merchantable  property,  and  can  be 
kept  to  multiply  the  stock  of  two  legged  animals  for  sale,  so  long 
they  may  enjoy  every  possible  familiarity;  suckle  white  children, 
be  forced  to  amalgamate,  sleep  in  the  bedrooms,  experience  every 
species  of  personal  intercourse,  and  be  trusted  as  body  servants  ; 
but  when  they  become  free  and  can  no  longer  be  defiled  or  tortur 
ed  with  impunity,  then  up  rises  all  the  slaveholder's  bile  of  preju 
dice,  which  is  just  as  loathsome  and  infectious  and  incurable  as 
Dr.  Reese's  black  vomit  that  he  has  "puked  up"  in  this  loathsome 
choleric  pamphlet. 

The  Anti-Slavery  Society  also  affirm,  5.  "  This  prejudice  is 
conquerable  by  the  moral  power  of  the  gospel."  To  comprehend 
the  excellency  of  Dr.  Reese's  reply  to  this  proposition,  we  must 
recollect  that  this  M.  D.  boasts  in  this  pamphlet  that  he  is  an 
American,  and  declares  that  all  the  friends  of  human  liberty  are 
Anti- Americans ,  that  like  the  Pharisee  of  old,  he  brags  that  he  is 
a  Christian,  and  scouts  and  vilifies  the  enemies  of  slavery  as  hea 
then  men  and  publicans,  and  that  he  talks  loudly  of  his  being  a 
human  being,  leaving  us  to  draw  the  inference  that  the  members 
of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  are  unnatural  monsters.  With  these 
refreshing  proofs  of  modesty  in  this  Baltimore  M.  D.  listen  to  his 
exposition  of  American  liberty  and  the  Christian  religion!  Pages 
9  and  J9.  After  stating  that  the  physical,  intellectual,  political, 
and  moral  evils  of  American  slavery  are  utterly  incapable  of  exag 
geration,  he  thus  proceeds  :  "Slavery  is  provided  for  by  the  Con 
stitution.  The  protection  of  slave  property  is  provided  for  by  the 
laws.  Our  brethren  of  the  South  choose  to  continue  slavery,  and 
absolutely  prohibit  emancipation  except  upon  condition  of  removal. 
The  liberty  of  the  free  is  not  more  amply  guarded  and  fully  secur 
ed  by  the  laws  than  is  the  slavery  of  the  enslaved."  So  much  for 
David  M.  Reese's  American  patriotism  and  philanthropy! 

Now  explore  his  Christianity.  "Our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  never 
once  uttered  a  single  sentence  against  slaveholding,  that  heinous 
crime  which  is  worse  than  piracy  and  murder.  He  and  they,"  his 
apostles,  "in  no  one  instance  bore  a  testimony  against  this  heinous 
crime  in  the  sight  of  God.  Is  it  not  passing  strange  that  our  Lord 
did  not  abrogate  that  part  of  the  moral  law  which  as  much  forbids 
the  coveting  of  a  man  servant  or  maid  servant  as  the  coveting  of  any 
3 


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other  species  of  property?  See  Luke  xvii.  7,  8,  for  a  distinct  re 
cognition  of  slavery."  It  would  be  an  insult  to  the  understanding 
of  the  reader  to  Offer  a  single  commentary  on  this  blasphemy  and 
wickedness.  It  would  not  be  "  kindred  stupidity  ;"  for  the  Balti 
more  Esculapius  is  too  crafty  for  an  idiot,  it  would  be  well  if  he 
could  show  that  excuse  for  his  "  moral  obliquities."  But  to  expose 
this  impious  scoffing  against  divine  truth  and  the  principles  of  eter 
nal  rectitude  and  reciprocal  justice,  would  be  to  participate  in 
similar  wickedness  to  that  which  betrays  a  friend,  and  similar  in 
fidelity  to  that  which  dishonours  defenceless  females.  After  such 
an  evangelical  exposition  we  must  be  convinced  that  the  people 
who  listen  to  the  "Right  Reverend  Bishop  Reese's"  discourses 
upon  gospel  subjects,  must  be  unspeakably  enlightened  and  ed 
ified,  by  his  luminous  illustrations  of  the  seventh  and  eighth  com 
mandments. 

It  is  superfluous  to  continue  our  extracts  except  the  summary 
which  the  Doctor  has  given,  and  as  this  quotation  will  contain  the 
concentrated  spirit  of  all  his  "  fury,  folly,  extravagance,  madness, 
corruption  and  calumny,"  we  present  it  in  full. 

First  lie.  "  The  American  Anti-Slavery  Society,  says  this  most 
veracious  witness,  is  both  Anti-American  and  Anti-Christian  in  its 
nature  and  tendency." 

Second  lie.  "  It  is  wild,  visionary  and  Utopian,  in  proposing  to 
elevate  to  equality  with  the  whites  a  race  so  long  oppressed,  de 
graded  and  down  trodden  in  the  dust."  Mem.  Witness  the  Israel 
ites  who  were  just  as  long  in  Egypt,  as  the  African  race  have  been 
in  the  American  house  of  bondage.  We  recommend  the  "  Right 
Reverend  Bishop  Reese"  at  his  next  preachment,  to  analyze  the 
similitudes  between  the  descendants  of  Jacob,  and  the  posterity  of 
the  kidnapped  people  of  Congo,  and  between  Pharaoh  and  his 
taskmasters  and  American  slaveholders,  and  between  Moses  and 
Aaron  and  the  American  Anti-Slarery  Society. 

Third  lie.  "  Their  schemes  and  plans  are  treasonable  in  their 
character,  involving  the  overthrow  of  our  civil  institutions,  and  the 
dissolution  of  our  national  compact."  A  friend  to  the  sapient 
Doctor,  charitably  suggests,  that  this  passage  has  been  altered  by 
a  trifling  mistake  of  the  printer;  for  it  should  thus  read  to  be  true  : 
"  Their  schemes  and  plans,  that  is  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society,  are 
reasonable  in  their  character,  involving  the  establishment  of  our 
civil  institutions,  and  the  confirmation  of  our  national  compact." 
Our  Methodist  friend  kindly  supposes,  that  some  roguish  printer 
altered  the  truth,  that  it  might  be  conformable  to  the  accompany 
ing  falsehoods. 

Fourth  lie.  "  They,"  that  is  the  plans  to  exterminate  American 
slavery,  "  are  utterly  impracticable,  because  at  war  with  the  laws 
of  the  land,  as  well  as  with  a  repugnance  deep,  universal  and  in 
vincible."  I  should  like  to  know  whether  Dr.  Reese,  when  he  is 
called  upon  to  visit  a  man  in  the  insipient  stages  of  a  mortal  dis 
ease,  and  which  all  the  symptoms  declare  will  terminate  in  death, 
refuses  to  cram  him  with  his  worthless  jalaps  and  pills,  and  object 


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to  his  fees  for  his  useless  visits,  when  he  is  beforehand  convinced 
that  all  the  articles  of  the  materia  medica,  and  all  the  skill  of  the 
whole  body  of  physicians  will  net  prolong  the  sick  man's  life  ? 
But  the  enforcement  by  the  pulpit,  and  the  press,  and  by  Chris 
tian  discipline  of  immediate  abolition,  will  speedily  induce  the 
Southern  States  to  annul  their  own  wicked  laws  respecting  slave 
ry,  and  will  conquer  their  repugnance  towards  coloured  citizens 
when  free,  but  which  is  not  felt  for,  "  mulattoes  and  mongrels" 
when  slaves. 

Fifth  lie.  "The  means  they,"  the  Anti-Slavery  Society,  "em 
ploy  are  calculated  to  engender  civil  strife,  servile  war,  insurrec 
tion,  and  bloodshed,  and  already  threaten  to  desolate  the  hopes, 
and  blast  the  rising  glory  ef  our  community."  There  is  a  second 
Daniel  come  to  judgment!  The  rising  glory  of  the  United  States, 
with  increasing  millions  of  slaves  inseparably  fettered,  as  a  mill 
stone  round  their  neck.  I  guess,  it  will  not  soar  very  high,  nor  to 
a  great  distance,  nor  any  length  of  time,  unless  you  loose  the  sink 
ing  disgrace,  which  forms  a  striking  and  melancholy  contrast  with 
the  rising  glory  ! 

Sixth  lie.  "The  Society  audaciously  usurps  the  supreme  legis 
lative,  judicial  ami  executive  authority  of  this  nation."  No  man 
in  America  of  any  sort  or  upon  any  subject,  neither  Lemuel  Gulli 
ver  nor  Baron  MuHchausen,  no  lying  Sutullus  of  Greece  and  Rome, 
no  slaveholders  or  slave  trader,  and  no  fiend  either  incorporeal  or 
incarnate,  ever  uttered  a  more  malignant  and  murderous  falsehood 
than  David  M.  Reese,  when  he  wilfully  wrote  that  atrocious  "  ma 
lignant  calumny." 

Seventh  lie.  "To  brand  any  portion  of  our  fellow  citizens  with 
the  crime  of  robbery,  piracy  and  murder  for  an  act  recognized  as  a 
civil  right,  is  virtual  treason  before  God  and  man  :  and  must  inevi 
tably  tend  to  disaifcct  and  alienate  Southern  Christians  from  their 
brethren,  unsettle  the  Union,  and  involve  the  nation  in  civil  rebel 
lion,  if  not  in  the  bloody  tragedy  of  a  servile  war."  Carry  out  this 
sublime  doctrine:  what  follows?  To  call  a  man  a  Judas  who  be 
trays  his  father  and  relative,  alienates  the  affections  of  Christian 
brethren.  To  denominate  a  seducer  of  virgins  and  a  companion 
of  prostitutes  when  a  married  man,  an  adulterer,  is  to  provoke  the 
"  irrational  effervescence"  of  the  depraved;  and  to  proclaim  the 
word  of  God  which  declares  that  every  "  slaveholder  is  a  man- 
stealer,  a  sinner  of  the  first  rank  and  guilty  of  the  highest  kind  of 
theft,"  is  to  excite  a  "  bloody  tragedy."  No  doubt !  for  David  M. 
Reese  and  his  fellow  actors  have  fulfilled  their  parts  in  that  renown 
ed  tragedy,  the  New  York  riots  of  1833  and  1834. 

Eighth  lie.  "  The  attempt  to  propagate  such  doctrines,"  those 
of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society,  "  in  any  part  of  the  Union,  ought  to  be 
steadily  and  efficiently  opposed  by  every  friend  of  Christianity." 
When  I  read  this  clause,  a  friend  thus  annotated  :  I  perceive  the 
mistake  there  exactly.  "  The  printer,  said  my  friend,  unfortunate- 
ly  or  designedly  omitted  the  word  NOT  after  ought." 


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Ninth  lie.  "  The  abolition  of  slavery  frrfrn  this  land,  by  an  or 
ganized  body  of  citizens  in  any  of  the  free  States,  is  to  be  depre 
cated  as  a  public  calamity."  This  is  Satan  with  his  cloven  foot 
without  concealment.  According  to  this  patriotic,  philanthropic, 
and  religious  dogma,  pronounced  by  the  "  Right  Reverend  Bishop 
Reese,"  all  societies  to  demolish  Paganism,  spread  the  Bible,  dis 
seminate  religious  tracts,  support  Sunday  schools,  and  root  up 
11  drunkenness,"  unless  "  the  will  and  voluntary  action  of  those 
transgressors  precede,  cannot  fail  to  retard,  if  not  utterly  prevent 
the  extinguishment  of  moral  evil  in  the  world,  and  must  inflict  un 
utterable  mischief  upon  the  sinners  themselves."  This  is  what  David 
M.  Reese,  an  instigator  of  the  New  York  riots,  a  disturber  of  the 
public  meetings  at  the  Chatham  Street  Chapel,  an  apostate  betrayer 
of  both  sides  of  the  Methodists,  and  an  expositor  of  the  seventh  com 
mandment,  calls  a  recognition  of  the  "  paramount  claims  and  au 
thority  of  the  divine  law,  and  implicit  obedience  and  unqualified  sub 
mission  to  its  requirements."  Away  with  such  brazen  hypocrisy  ! 

Tenth  lie.  "  The  tendencies  of  the  American  Anti-Slavery 
Society  inflame  the  public  mind,  increase  the  prejudice  which  it 
professes  to  remove,  magnify  the  evils  of  slavery,  diminish  the  pros 
pects  of  emancipation,  and  overthrow  the  hopes  of  its  friends." 
Here  is  the  old  juggling  of  Satan  again  exhibited  in  clear  display. 
Are  not  these  the  stereotyped  objections  of  sinners  against  all  the 
moral  reforms  which  the  world  has  ever  witnessed.  Truth  always 
receives  the  same  outrageous  repulsion.  "  They  are  turning  the 
world  upside  down;"  said  the  calumniators  of  the  apostles.  "You 
are  turning  the  Southern  States  upside  down,"  vociferates  David 
M.  Reese.  This  very  allegation  certifies  the  purity  and  the  truth 
of  the  Anti-Slavery  cause.  The  confusion,  uproar,  and  dismay 
with  which  the  zeal  and  energy  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  fill  all 
classes  of  the  motley  assemblage  of  "  whites  and  mongrels,"  who 
throng  the  "  broad  road  that  leads  to  destruction,"  under  such  blind 
guides  as  "  the  Right  Reverend  Bishop  Reese,"  as  he  is  entitled 
by  his  dearly  beloved  fellow  craftsmen,  prove  beyond  all  dispute 
that  the  Anti-Slavery  cause,  as  the  magicians  of  Pharaoh  declared 
respecting  the  vermin  with  which  at  the  command  of  Moses  they 
were  tormented,  and  of  which  they  could  not  divest  themselves, 
"  this  is  the  finger  of  God."  The  "Right  Reverend  Bishop 
Reese,"  and  his  juggling  confederates,  both  ecclesiastical  arid  civil, 
may  go  on,  Pharaoh  like,  hardening  their  hearts,  pleading  for  the 
"  gradual  arid  ultimate  abolition  of  slavery,"  at  the  day  of  judg 
ment,  but  they  will  be  disappointed  ;  they  will  either  have  to  repent 
and  obey  the  command  of  the  Lord,  and  let  the  oppressed  go  free  ; 
or  they  will  realize  not  the  merciful  punishment  of  being  drowned 
in  the  Red  Sea,  but  that  fearful  catastrophe,  the  "judgment  and 
fiery  indignation  which  shall  devour  the  adversaries"  of  the  Lord, 
"  when  he  shall  come  to  be  glorified  in  his  saints  and  to  be  admired 
in  all  those  who  believe." 

IV.  Malignity.     The  ferocious  character  of  the  "  Brief  Review 
of  the  Report  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society,"  and  the  malicious  spirit 


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of  its  author  have  already  been  amply  displayed;  but  it  is  requi 
site  to  gather  up  a  few  more  disjointed  scraps  that  the  adherents  of 
the  Anti-Slavery  cause  may  understand  the  genuine  qualities  of 
their  ruthless  foes,  and  be  encouraged  to  persevere,  trusting  in  the 
Lord,  who  will  assuredly  destroy  all  the  works  of  the  devil. 

This  notice  of  David  M.  Reese's  boisterous  threatening,  and 
calumnious  pamphlet  is  not  published  because  there  is  any  intrinsic 
merit  in  his  "irrational  effervescence;"  or  because  there  is  any 
quality  in  him  which  could  excite  any  other  feeling  than  unfeigned 
abhorrence  for  his  sins  and  compassion  for  his  errors  and  trans 
gressions;  but  in  this  pamphlet  he  is  the  ostensible  organ,  the 
"  Right  Rev.  Bishop"  of  a  "  motley  assemblage  of  mongrels/'  who 
feel  as  he  feels,  only  they  have  not  the  hardihood  to  betray  it,  and 
who  talk  in  private  that  which  he  alone  has  the  impudence  to  utter 
in  public.  David  M.  Reese's  pamphlet  is  the  true  expression  of 
the  wicked  opinions,  ungodly  principles,  and  murderous  determi 
nations  of  all  those  who  revile  slaveholcling  in  the  abstract,  but  de 
fend  it  in  practice  ;  and  who  "  go  with  the  South"  for  the  gradual 
abolition  of  American  slavery.  This  farrago  of  calumny  and  mis 
representation  and  impiety  has  been  written  at  their  request,  is 
published  with  their  approbation,  has  been  ratified  with  their  public 
sanction,  and  consequently  is  the  manifesto  of  that  ungodly  cabal, 
who  evidently  govern  New  York,  by  the  power  of  a  ruffian  mob, 
whom  they  can  always  instigate  to  desolate  and  murder  with  impuni 
ty,  whenever  the  devil  instigates  them. 

Open,  daring,  unconcealed  malignity  often  defeats  its  own  deadly 
purposes.  It  so  shocks  the  moral  sense  and  the  instinctive  feelings 
of  mankind,  that  they  instantly  circumvent  its  mischievous  designs. 
Thus  David  M.  Reese's  cold  blooded  malevolence  would  have  fur 
nished  its  own  antidote,  had  he  not  commingled  a  portion  of  honey 
with  his  gall,  and  put  on  a  sheep's  skin,  if  possible,  to  conceal  his 
wolfish  ravening.  His  malignity,  therefore,  is  of  precisely  the  same 
character  as  that  of  Joab  and  Judas.  The  poisoner  who  mingles 
his  potion  of  death  with  the  cup  which  he  presents  you  to  drink 
gives  you  no  forewarning  of  the  fatal  ingredients  which  you  will 
swallow.  The  lurking  assassin  does  not  premonish  you,  that  the 
dagger  is  about  to  be  struck  into  your  heart.  So  David  M.  Reese 
speaks  to  you  smoothly  and  peaceably  to  hide  the  fell  object  which 
he  pursues,  your  total  and  irremediable  destruction.  Joab  sent  for 
Abner,  to  speak  with  him  quietly,  and  then  smote  him  under  the 
fifth  rib.  So  the  same  Joab  offered  to  kiss  Arnasa,  asking  him, 
"  art  thou  in  health  my  brother?"  and  at  the  same  moment  run  him 
through  with  his  sword.  Thus  Judas  appeared  before  the  Redeemer : 
"Hail,  Master!"  said  the  traitor,  and  kissed  him;  while  at  the 
same  time  he  had  directed  the  attending  soldiers  to  hold  him  fast. 

This  stereotyped  hypocrisy,  treachery  and  malignity,  are  the  ex 
act  counterparts  of  David  M.  Reese's  character,  as  developed  in 
his  review.  He  has  deliberately  declared  that  all  the  members  of 
the  Anti-Slavery  Society  without  exception,  and  several  ministers 
of  the  gospel  and  other  citizens,  are  guilty  of  the  following  crimes- 


This  charge  is  not  a  solitary  overflowing  of  "  irrational  efferves 
cence,"  but  it  constitutes  the  running  subject  of  a  pamphlet  of  45 
pages.  Expunge  the  various  repetitions  of  these  same  epithets  and 
calumnies,  and  you  blot  out  the  whole  of  his  review.  He  says  that 
the  members  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  are  "  filled  with  delusion 
and  fanaticism  ;  and  are  guilty  of  political  heresies  and  moral  ob 
liquities."  That  they  are  "  mistaken  and  misguided  men,  radical 
ly  wrong  in  their  practice,  who  have  brought  upon  themselves  and 
others  public  calamities."  That  they  are  rebels  and  traitors  aiming 
to  involve  the  United  States  in  civil  rebellion  and  the  bloody  tragedy 
of  a  servile  war.  That  they  are  so  reckless  of  truth,  that  they  have 
invented  the  most  "  stupid  rant,  hyperbole  and  fiction,"  and  have 
told  their  outrageous  lies  so  often,  that  they  now  believe  them  to  be 
truth.  That  they  are  "  foreign  zealots,  foreign  incendiaries,  and 
imported  demagogues,"  who  are  calumniators  and  traitors,  uttering 
foul  slander  with  the  ''ravings  of  madmen."  That  all  their  pre 
tensions  to  the  character  of  American  citizens  and  Christians  are 
utterly  deceptive  and  untrue,  for  they  are  both  Anti-American  and 
Anti-Christian!^  And  that  if  those  Anti-Slavery  men  meet  to 
gether  and  make  addresses  respecting  the  abolition  of  slavery,  they 
ought  to  be  defeated  and  opposed,  and  be  involved  in  still  greater 
calamities,  than  the  destruction  of  churches,  the  despoiling  of  do 
mestic  habitations,  and  the  maiming  or  murder  of  inoffensive  min 
isters  of  the  gospel,  and  peaceful,  philanthropic  citizens. 

Now  the  mere  annunciation  of  all  this  "  wholesale  slander  and 
excess  of  bitterness,"  carries  with  it  its  own  antidote ;  and  even 
David  M.  Reese's  confederates,  the  infuriated  men,  not  "  ignorant 
and  depraved,"  filled  with  "combustibility"  arid  "driven  to  mad 
ness"  by  the  feverish  excitement  with  which  he  had  inoculated  them, 
would  not  patiently  swallow  this  hellebore.  The  Doctor  therefore, 
secundurn  artem,  has  given  his  pills  an  exterior  attraction  by  an 
exhibition  of  hypocrisy  at  which  Joab  would  have  blushed ;  and 
for  which  Judas  would  have  given  him  half  of  the  thirty  pieces  of 
silver.  Listen  to  him  !  "  If  they  are  Christians" — what?  Rebels, 
Traitors,  Liars,  anti-Christian  men  laden  with  "  moral  obliquities," 
unnatural  amalgamators,  &c.  &,c.  Christians!  verily,  the  "Right 
Reverend  Bishop  Reese's"  ideas  of  Christianity  must  have  been 
formed  in  the  Slaveholder's  Theological  Seminary,  where  all  those 
and  their  corresponding  crimes  are  justified  by  the  examples  of 
Abraham,  and  David,  and  Paul  and  Onesimus.  However,  if  they 
are  Christians,  says  the  Right  Reverend  Bishop  Reese,  they  should 
remember  their  divine  Master,  who  said  I  have  many  things  to  say 
to  you,  but  ye  cannot  bear  them  yet;  "and  when  his  voice  was 
drowned  by  a  public  clamor,  he  went  out  from  among  them,  and  he 
charged  his  disciples  even  when  persecuted  in  one  city,  to  flee  to 
another.  Surely  they  should  take  the  word  as  it  is,  and  not  as  they 
think  it  ought  to  be,  if  they  would  be  followers  of  him."  Preface 
to  Dr.  Reese's  review. 

There  is  Christianity  for  you!  Let  us  put  it  in  the  form  of  a 
discourse.  Suppose  the  "  Right  Reverend  Bishop  Reese"  should 


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go  to  the  Five  Points  and  lecture  upon  the  seventh  commandment, 
He  begins  and  reads  his  text,  but  the  infuriated,  "motley  assem 
blage,  mulattpes  and  mongrels,"  prevent  the  delivery  of  his  exposi 
tion  in  the  "  most  peaceable  and  effectual  manner  ;"  or  he  passes 
by  the  whole  subject,  with  a  gentle  rebuke  at  which  his  friendly  au 
ditors  smile,  and  winds  up  by  the  Lord's  words :  "  I  have  many 
things  to  say  to  you,"  about  your  licentiousness,  "  but  ye  cannot 
bear  them  yet,';  how  many  converts  would  he  make  ?  Therefore 
he  resolves  to  take  the  Five  Points  as  they  are,  not  as  they  ought  to 
be.  This  course  the  "  Right  Reverend  Bishop  Reese"  has  the 
"presumptuous  effrontery"  to  denominate  following  Christ. 

After  calling  upon  the  infuriated  populace  to  involve  the  rebels, 
traitors,  liars,  and  incendiaries  in  still  greater  calamities,  he  says, 
"for  their  persons  we  feel  nought,  but  good  will."  What  insanity  ! 
Among  the  remarkable  exhibitions  of  human  weakness  and  infatu 
ation,  there  is  none  more  glaring  than  the  outcry  made  about  for 
eigners  by  a  certain  class  of  people  in  the  United  States.  Men 
who  were  born  British  subjects  prior  to  the  revolutionary  war  talk 
about  foreigners,  because  they  were  born  subjects  of  Britain,  in 
another  part  of  their  dominions.  According  to  the  Constitution 
and  the  laws  of  the  land,  about  which  Dr.  Reese  palavers  so  much, 
every  citizen  is  an  American,  whether  he  was  born  upon  this  globe 
or  in  the  moon,  or  even  whether  he  is  a  member  of  David  M. 
Reese's  lovely,  but  "  wild  and  visionary  nation  of  mulattoes  and 
mongrels."  Although  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  United  States  are 
either  foreigners  or  their  descendants,  yet  no  combustible  subject 
furnishes  more  potent  materials  to  inflame  hateful  and  turbulent 
feelings  among  the  "ignorant  and  depraved."  This  same  "for 
eigner,"  according  to  David  M.  Reese,  is  a  marvellous  nondescript : 
for  it  includes  all  the  white  people  born  out  of  the  United  States, 
and  all  colored  citizens  engendered  within  them.  Now  if  we  ex 
patriate  four  millions  of  whites,  and  three  millions  of  "  mulattoes 
and  mongrels,"  we  should  completely  "desolate  the  hopes,  and 
blast  the  rising  glory  of  our  common  country."  If  this  is  not  "  un 
sophisticated  nullification,"  then  there  is  no  mode  to  destroy  our 
national  prosperity  and  the  federal  compact. 

Mark  this,  "  malignity  and  hypocrisy  !"  When  a  foreign  wild- 
man,  a  leader  in  all  the  Jamaica  riots,  belches  forth  his  "  inflamma 
tory  harrangues,"  and  his  "outrageous  recklessness  of  truth" 
against  liberty,  although  but  just  landed,  he  is  an  American  and  a 
Christian  of  Dr.  Reese's  fraternity  ;  but  if  American  citizens  main 
tain  the  authentic  standard  doctrine  of  the  nation,  they  are  "  for 
eign  incendiaries,  imported  demagogues,  and  lying  traitors,  both 
Anti-American  and  Anti-Christian !"  This  is  the  logic  and  decen 
cy  of  that  learned  and  immaculate  M.  D.  the  "  Right  Reverend 
Bishop  Reese." 

The  hypocritical  malignity  of  David  M.  Reese  appears  in  a  two 
fold  view  ;  he  criminates  the  innocent,  and  exculpates  the  guilty. 
Speaking  of  amalgamation,  he  thus  clears  the  slave  manufacturers. 
"  Profligate  sexual  intercourse  between  the  races  every  where  meets 


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with  the  execration  of  the  respectable  arid  virtuous  among  the  whites, 
as  the  despicable  form  of  licentiousness.  Page  16.  Criminal  amal 
gamation  may  and  does  exist  among  the  most  degraded  of  the  spe 
cies."  In  reply,  it  may  be  observed,  that  amalgamation  is  almost 
universal  among  slaveholders,  and  so  far  from  being  accounted 
either  criminal  or  disgraceful,  it  is  their  boast  and  the  source  of 
their  luxury.  Witness  John  Randolph's  mulattoes,  and  Richard 
M.  Johnson's  "  mongrels;"  besides  myriads  of  others  who  bear  the 
broad  superscription  of  their  fathers,  too  legible  to  be  mistaken. 
Yet  all  this  "  criminal  amalgamation,"  which  scarcely  any  mem 
bers  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  ever  saw,  Dr.  Reese,  with  his 
"  foul  slander  and  stereotyped  calumny,"  endeavors  to  apply  to  the 
Northern  Puritans,  and  thus  to  exonerate  "  the  most  degraded  of 
the  species  from  the  most  despicable  form  of  licentiousness." 

Having  belched  forth  all  his  "malignity,  vulgarity  and  bitterness," 
the  Right  Reverend  Bishop  Reese  thus  gilds  his  nauseating  pills. 
Page  43.  "  We  acquit  the  originators  and  promoters  of  the  Socie 
ty  of  any  motive  to  inflict  untold  evils  upon  their  country,  and 
award  them  all  the  disinterestedness  they  deserve.  And  if  it  be 
comes  necessary  to  encounter  them,  we  do  this  without  using  car 
nal  weapons,  and  without  feeling  any  personal  rancor  or  hostility." 
That  is  charming !  Bricks,  stones,  &/c.  are  not  carnal  weapons  ac 
cording  to  Dr.  Reese.  To  represent  the  most  harmless  and  peacea 
ble  citizens  in  America  as  traitors,  rebels,  authors  of  a  bloody  trag 
edy,  liars,  hypocrites,  and  calumniators;  and  to  urge  infuriated  men 
"  driven  to  madness,"  to  destroy  their  churches,  and  their  houses, 
and  to  force  them  to  fly  from  their  habitations  to  preserve  their  lives, 
manifest  no  rancor  and  hostility  ;  and  to  sanction  these  lawless  des 
peradoes  in  their  desolating  work,  the  "  Right  Reverend  Bishop 
Reese"  basely  alleges  the  example  and  daringly  perverts  the  words 
of  the  Lord  the  Judge.  The  persecuted  followers  of  Christ  are 
only  doing  as  the  Lord  commanded,  "  when  you  are  persecuted 
in  one  city  flee  to  another."  But  what  did  Jesus  say  concerning 
such  persecutors  as  Bishop  Reese,  M.  D.  and  his  not  ignorant  and  de 
praved  confederates  who  conspire  against  Christians,  and  drive  them 
from  the  house  and  city,  and  make  them  flee  to  another?  Hear 
him  :  Matt.  x.  15.  "  Verily  I  say  unto  you,  it  shall  be  more  tole 
rable  for  the  land  of  Sodom  and  Gomorrah  in  the  day  of  judgment, 
than  for  that  city."  The  ringleaders  of  the  New  York  riots  as  well 
as  their  subordinate  "  infuriated  populace,"  unless  they  repent,  will 
surely  experience  the  indignation  of  that  righteous  God,  who  will 
inflict  the  penalties  for  his  outraged  glory  and  his  violated  laws. 

We  now  dismiss  this  "  Right  Reverend  Bishop  Reese,  and  M.  D. 
of  New  York"  to  the  pity  and  contempt  of  every  upright  and  peacea 
ble  citizen  ;  assuring  him  that  the  Anti-Slavery  Society  truly  com 
passionate  his  "  stereotyped  malignity  and  calumny,"  detest  his 
Judas-like  character;  abhor  his  "  moral  obliquities ;"  and  sincere 
ly  pray — O  Lord!  whenthou  shalt  make  inquisition  for  blood,  lay 
not  the  sin  of  this  brief  review  to  his  charge ! 


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